The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin

Miriam Margolyes, Judy Davis and Jacki Weaver are teaming up to star in an unconventional road trip comedy set in 1970s New Zealand.
Three elderly nuns set off on a mission in their car powered by God to track down a lost boy in search of heaven, and the film promises to be entertaining and heartfelt.
Miriam Margolyes says she's delighted to be involved in this film and she's enjoying working with her 'awe-inspiring' co-stars.
"I'm out of my depth, really, with them - I think they're just astonishing."
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Dr Lucy Hone is well-regarded as a resilience expert and she's got plenty of personal and academic experience with devastating grief.
Grief comes in many forms - not just with death, but divorce, estrangement, dementia, redundancy, and Hone's put her findings into a book.
She says some people are more 'mentally agile' than others and that learning how to balance emotions is a key skill.
"They're also typically good at being able to focus their attention on the things that they can change - and somehow accept the things that they can't. And I'm not going to pretend that that's easy or sugarcoat it, but all of my work is about helping people."
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Spies and other Gods by James Wolff. This spy thriller is set apart from others by being narrated by a kind of collective voice of MI5 - it’s the spies watching the spies. Sir William Rentoul, head of the service, takes great umbrage when an anonymous whistle-blower lays a complaint and a smart young parliamentary researcher is brought in to investigate. MI5 are particularly adept at ensuring she makes no progress, but she becomes a part of something much, much bigger, and which also gets Sir William back into the field after years driving an MI5 desk, with predictable results.
The Dead Speak by Thomas Coyle. The author learned the science and art of forensics with the Metropolitan police in the UK, before eventually moving to New Zealand, after which he became involved in victim identification after the Boxing Day tsunami, and the Christchurch earthquake in 2011. It’s a fascinating account about the training involved, and the painstaking processes which forensic investigators follow in the course of their critical work. It’s an easy read although as he says, not for the faint of heart, with a good dose of black humour.
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With the new year getting underway, blogger and travel expert Megan Singleton revealed how to make the most out of your next big trip.
She's revealed how to save money on international bank fees, how to prepare for airport security and what to do if your luggage gets damaged.
Read more of her tips and tricks here.
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This week on the Sunday Panel, Wellington Mornings host Nick Mills and Director at Capital, Ben Thomas, joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!
Does the Government need to move with urgency to get CAR T-cell therapy publicly available as soon as possible? Do we have faith they'll move quickly enough?
Safety's been called into question after a collision at yesterday's SailGP event in Auckland landed two athletes in the hospital. Do changes need to be made?
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